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1. Happy Birth­day to Us! – Today is a big mile­stone day for us: This post is our 500^th and it marks the one-year anniver­sary of Post Academic’s launch.  Thanks to all who’ve found their way here, espe­cially the cohort of like­minded blog­gers who made us feel as if we weren’t crazy, bit­ter, and alone.  Not to get mushy on you, […]
2. The Ben­e­fits of Com­part­men­tal­iza­tion – In our last install­ment of “Sense & San­gria,” I gave advice to a first-year pro­fes­sor who wasn’t happy with his first tenure-track job. One of our com­menters had some excel­lent advice for the pro­fes­sor: I have been in the same sit­u­a­tion for the last 13 years. What finally did the trick for me, I just […]
3. Live Blog­ging (kinda) James Franco at the Oscars – You didn’t think we’d miss out on the oppor­tu­nity to live blog — as best we can, at least — about James Franco at the Oscars, or at least any­thing related to his adven­tures as a Ph.D. stu­dent.  Here’s what we’ve caught of the cov­er­age so far… 5:00 PM (west coast time): James Franco does […]
4. Follow-Ups: Wis­con­sin Protests and “Chef Law” – We wanted to fol­low up on a few of our bet­ter traf­ficked posts from the past week, Caroline’s on the Wis­con­sin protests and Arnold’s on pla­gia­rism in Top Chef. Wis­con­sin Protests: Thanks to all the won­der­ful com­ments to our post on the ongo­ing Wis­con­sin saga–to cite a cliché, we can dis­agree with­out being dis­agree­able! Lest […]
5. Look­ing Back on “Lucky Jim” – “I’ve just been won­der­ing what led you to take up this racket in the first place.” This ques­tion pops up in Kings­ley Amis’ Lucky Jim, in which the not-so-lucky protagonist/semi-antihero finds him­self stuck in an aca­d­e­mic job he hates. Yet he still craves job secu­rity, which hinges on a boss who cares more about social […]

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1. Kisses and a Love Let­ter: Read­ing Sexed Sub­jec­tiv­ity in Anglo­phone Lit­er­a­ture and Visual Arts after Lacan’s Sem­i­nar XX
2. [REMINDER] Post-Graduate Stu­dent Con­fer­ence on Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture and Trans­la­tion Stud­ies 17–18 May 2012
3. [UPDATE — NEW DATE] Works in Progress: An Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Con­fer­ence, June 1, 2012
4. [UPDATE] Crowd con­trol in the Renaissance
5. MLA Spe­cial Ses­sion: “British Lit­er­a­ture and the State, 1870–1930″ (dead­line 3÷10÷12; Boston 2013)

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1. CFP: The Kris­teva Cir­cle –   Please sub­mit abstracts (500−750 words) on any topic related to the work of Julia Kris­teva, to kristevacircle@gmail.com. We wel­come sub­mis­sions from across all dis­ci­plines. Abstracts should be suit­able for… Read more »
2. Call for Papers/Abstracts: Virtue Ethics – We seek orig­i­nal essays that focus on virtue ethics within the phe­nom­e­no­log­i­cal tra­di­tion or uti­liz­ing the phe­nom­e­no­log­i­cal method. Although virtue ethics is a tra­di­tion that is well suited to the… Read more »
3. CFP : Vari­eties of Con­ti­nen­tal Thought and Reli­gion – Vari­eties of Con­ti­nen­tal Thought and Reli­gion June 15-­16, 2012 Ryer­son Uni­ver­sity Toronto, Canada   We invite sub­mis­sions from schol­ars and grad­u­ate stu­dents based in Canada and abroad on the topic… Read more »
4. CFP: The Inter­na­tional Jour­nal of Badiou Stud­ies – The Inter­na­tional Jour­nal for Badiou Stud­ies is an inter­na­tional, peer-reviewed, open-source jour­nal ded­i­cated to the phi­los­o­phy and thought of, and sur­round­ing, the French philoso­pher Alain Badiou.
5. CFP: Pow­ers of the False Sym­po­sium – Inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s the­o­ries of minor cin­ema and his term ‘pow­ers of the false’, the sym­po­sium will turn to other philoso­phers too, to approach its cen­tral con­cep­tual and eth­i­cal ques­tions, includ­ing Lev­inas’ phi­los­o­phy of alterity.

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1. Mys­tory Expres­sion – The drips were not orig­i­nal with Pollock.“Max Ernst [the great painter who was a hus­band for a while of Peggy Guggen­heim], thought Pol­lock had stolen it from him, and, as [William] Rubin has detailed, poured paint­ings by a host of major and minor atists asso­ci­ated with Sur­re­al­ism could claim priority….In any event, the plethora of […]
2. Be the Polo – When Peter Eisen­man asked Jacques Der­rida for a design idea (to be con­structed as a folly in the Paris Parc de la Vil­lette), Der­rida pro­posed chora.  Chora alludes to trace, and we are approach­ing it now through the phe­nom­e­non of game, as part of the heuret­ics of avatar.  The func­tion of avatar is con­sul­ta­tion, and […]
3. Play­ing the Gap – The Real is imma­nent.  It nei­ther con­ceals or reveals but inti­mates.  It (Es) is t/here in every­thing we do.  We cel­e­brate fun­da­men­tal ontol­ogy every day. We live it with­out (neces­sity of) know­ing.  It is given There is (es gibt, il y a) a hole, pri­mor­dial gap.  Is the gap chaos brought into order, or a […]

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1. CFP: LSU Grad­u­ate His­tory Con­fer­ence – The His­tory Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Asso­ci­a­tion at LSU is seek­ing con­fer­ence pre­sen­ters in the field of African postocolonialis…
2. First Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Elec­tronic Lit­er­a­ture and New Media Art: “A human­ist enquiry into the dig­i­tal field” – The Insti­tuto Franklin UAH orga­nizes the First Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Elec­tronic Lit­er­a­ture and New Media Art to p…
3. 8^th Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Chi­cano Lit­er­a­ture: Cross­ing the Bor­ders of Imag­i­na­tion
   Toledo, May 24–26, 2012 – Insti­tuto Franklin UAH issues a call for pan­els and a call for papers and wel­comes post-graduate stu­dents as well as mo…
4. Inter­na­tional Orga­ni­za­tions – The Jour­nal of Inter­na­tional Orga­ni­za­tions Stud­ies (JIOS) now invites papers for its 2013 pub­li­ca­tions in March and Sept…
5. II Lis­bon Sum­mer School for the Study of Cul­ture – Periph­eral Moder­ni­ties – The II Lis­bon Sum­mer School for the Study of Cul­ture will take the man­i­fold assump­tions about moder­nity and its modernis…

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1. Warms Is a Phys­i­cal and Dig­i­tal Valentine’s Day Sur­prise – Mil­lions of peo­ple will send their beloveds flow­ers this Valentine’s Day, but what if they could send a baby in a box — no, not a real baby. I…